Interview: An Interview With A Registered Nurse

Maggie Harrison
For this interview I chose my sister Kelly Harrison. She works at KU pediatric office in Kansas City. Her position in this company is a registered nurse. In this position she is responsible for assessing vitals on patients before they see the doctor. She will ask the patients what medications they are on and the reason for their visit. Kelly also collects specimens to be tested and sends them to the lab. The way she communicates with her patients and families with any questions is by telephone calls. In her workforce she has around 150 employees. Her contact information is 913-961-6523 and her email is [e-mail].
In a job setting it is always important to have an effective communication with others you work
Making sure her patients get the proper treatments, medications and referrals so that they can be healthy and make their lives better. Kelly describes meaningfulness as making sure that the needs of her patients are fully taken care of. In order for this to happen, she has to have good communication with her providers, fellow nurses, patient service representatives and the patents themselves. Kelly also says her co-workers contribute to meaningfulness in many ways. The other nurses may help her room a patient or aid her with a blood draw or obtain specimens when she is busy. Also the patient service representatives help schedule the patients to make sure they have appointments and will schedule with other doctors if referrals are needed. They can be distracting if they are not busy and start having conversations when Kelly is busy and doesn’t have time to talk. The way Kelly would change her situation to have more meaningfulness at her work is by having her co-workers ask more often how others are doing and if they need any help. A lot more work could be done I she said if everyone would work
In her job she spends a lot of time interacting with others. She has experienced a lot of Interpersonal experiences,” interacting one on one with supervisors, employees and patients.” (Shockley-Zalabak, 2015, P. 151) Kelly looks up her to doctor/ supervisor for advise on things she needs to work on and information to educate her better to give to her patients. Also Kelly and the other nurses give each other the support they need by helping each other out when one is busy. When the other nurses are just browsing the Internet or on their phone, Kelly and other nurses will use the power, “influence another person behavior to change their mind for a better outcome” (Shockley-Zalabak, 2015, P. 45) to ask the other nurses if they will come help them because they are too busy. Kelly describes different networks, “formal or informal ways of communicating” (Shockley-Zalabak, 2015, P. 33) in her work place. The formal way she communicates at work is when she is speaking about patients and diagnoses. The informal way is when she is communicating with managers and staff about schedules is through